When Intel's Ryan Shrout recently held a conference call about the performance of the 11th generation H-Series laptop processors, he took the time to throw some serious shade at Apple. In fact, Ryan was throwing shade at all of AMD, ARM, and Apple as if it were going out of style. Maybe Intel simply doesn't like the beginning of the alphabet." In any case, most of his resentment was directed at his old best friend, Apple.

According to Intel, the Mac's poor gaming experience gives their devices an edge. While I agree with this opinion, I am still surprised that Intel would say so.

This is not mere bragging. Not only are Apple's Macs garbage because they are powered by Apple's own M1 silicon, which is clearly inferior to what Intel used to make, but more than half of the most popular games do not even run on this platform.

What about emulators, you may ask, but that was covered as well, with Valheim showing it running horribly on Parallels, with trees popping up and textures appearing and disappearing. It was not a thing of beauty.

Not content with that, I also made this slide:

The red in this graph is actually a MacBook Pro with Intel, using a Core i9 9980HK and AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, or more accurately a Core i5 11400H and GeForce RTX 3060, proving that PCs are better, leading Intel to take down its slide that PCs offer a better gaming experience than 100% of Mac laptops.

There is an underlying theme here that gaming is no longer a niche. Even creators who buy laptops for work play games; the fact that you can't play games properly on a Mac means that Apple should give up and go home.

[14] To be fair, gaming on a Mac is absolute garbage and not something I want to do. However, I am surprised that Intel is so upset about this. I even asked if Intel would build bridges with Apple. The answer was that Apple has publicly stated that they are moving to their own silicon and are now a competitor. I guess all's well that ends well in love and war.